Sentence examples for hypothetical transactions from inspiring English sources

Confirming Horowitz and McConnell׳s (2002) pioneering meta-analysis, we find the disparity is smaller for ordinary private goods than for public and non-market goods, that it is not solely an artifact of using hypothetical transactions or other weak experimental or survey methods, and that it is smaller for studies using student subjects.

"In terms of the hypothetical transaction you refer to well the company been through that before," Sukawaty said.

Since that article appeared, however, two people who discussed the deal with the principals while it was being negotiated said in interviews that its basic outlines were similar to the hypothetical transaction just described.

In this comparison my picks, but not the index, have been docked 1% for hypothetical transaction costs.

If you had invested in all 16 of my recommendations (including 7 held over from 2004), you would be up 10.2%, after deducting 1% for a hypothetical transaction cost on the new positions; the same money invested on the same dates in the S&P 500 (but with no cost deducted) would have left you with only a 2.8% gain.

And all of these hypothetical results exclude transaction costs.

(This number includes coupons and dividends and is after a hypothetical 1% transaction cost).

I suggested 53 stocks in 2005, including stocks re-recommended from 2004, and they collectively were up 14.3%, after a hypothetical 1% transaction haircut on new positions.

If you had bought all 21 of the ones recommended in this column you would be down 49% (after a hypothetical 1% transaction cost).

Professor Jeremy Siegel of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School calculated a hypothetical return (before transaction costs) if someone had bought the 50 largest S&P 500 stocks on Dec. 31, 1950, and held on.

For those of you wondering how my picks turned out in 2009: The total return on a portfolio invested over the course of the year in my ten FORBES column picks was 5.9% (after a hypothetical 1% transaction cost) versus 2.7% for the same amounts invested on the same dates in Merrill Lynch's Corporate & Government Master Index.